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A77694	A key to the Kings cabinet; or Animadversions upon the three printed speeches, of Mr Lisle, Mr Tate, and Mr Browne, spoken at a common-hall in London, 3. July, 1645. Detecting the malice and falshood of their blasphemous observations made upon the King and Queenes letters.	Browne, Thomas, 1604?-1673.	1645 (1645)	Wing B5181A; Thomason E297_10; ESTC R200224	40,321	55

away the very Sence They presse those words of His Declaration which they conceive expresly makes against it wherein the King does assure the World that He hath no more thought of making Warre against the Parliament then against His own Children and that he hath not nor shall not have any thought of using of any Force unlesse he shall be driven to it for the security of his Person and for the defence of the Religion which words truly doe condemne the King to my thinking just as Pilate did Christ namely by washing of his hands For can any thing be plainer then that as those tearms of Ampliation We have not nor shall not have any thought of using of any Force doe comprehend in them a formall profession that the King will not wage Warre against the Parliament so those words of Limitation and exception unlesse we shall be driven to it for the security of our Person doe contain in them a virtuall profession also that He will And therefore when M. Browne will condemne the King for making Warre against the Parliament as doing contrary to His expresse Declaration and will take no notice of that Case of Reservation annexed thereto which as expresly justifies all that the King hath done He saies no more in truth against the King then the Welch-man did against the Iudge who cryed out upon him for putting him to death for stealing a Rope but left out the Mare Concerning the second His Alteration of Religion they produce these words out of another of the Kings Declarations God so deale with Mee and Mine as My thoughts and intentions are upright for the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion and those words in His Declaration concerning His going into Ireland That His Majesty will never consent upon what pretence soever to a Toleration of the Popish profession there or the Abolition of the Lawes now in force against Recusants in that Kingdomes And then concerning the third that is His Alteration of the Lawes the words of another Declaration are remembred and cast in His teeth wherein He professes That He is resolved not only duly to observe the Lawes Himselfe but to maintain them against what opposition soever though with the hazard of his being And now how false the King hath been to both these solemne Professions by His secret practises let His Letters and M. Browne declare Mr Browne Concerning Ireland you have heard the Propositions made to the Queene for sending into this Kingdome diverse Irish Rebells under the command of two professed Papists six Thousand of them were to be under the command of the Lord Glamorgan the Earle of Worcesters eldest Son the other of ten Thousand under the command of Colonell Fits Williams The tearmes that they were to come upon were read to you in the Propositions which themselves sent to the Queene You will not thinke that these came to maintain the Lawes but to destroy them not to maintaine the Protestant Religion but to overthrow it These Propositions being sent to the Queene and allowed by Her and Shee sent them to the King For the Letters concerning Ireland they were written by the King to the Earle of Ormond who is now Governor there in some of them Letters the King gives way to the suspending of Poynings Law which was an Act of Parliament in the tenth yeare of Henry the seaventh It was called Poynings Law because Sir Edward Poynings was Governor of Ireland when that Law was made That Law made all Statutes that were before made in England of force in Ireland and the King may as well suspend all the Lawes there as that Law By that Law of Poynings all Lawes that were after to be presented at the Parliament in Ireland must be first sent hither for approbation before they could be presented to the Parliament there and no Parliament must be called there before the causes of calling the Parliament and the Acts to be passed in that Parliament are first sent hither and approved But that Law now must be suspended Further in the Letters to the Lord of Ormond you see the King doth not count it a hard Bargaine for to make a Law in Ireland to suspend or to take away the Penall Lawes against Papists there so that they will help Him here against His Protestant Subjects When this promise was made the Declaration was not remembred wherein the King doth declare that upon no pretence whatsoever he will Tolerate the Popish profession in Ireland or Abolish the Lawes against Popish Recusants now in force there He farther saith in another Letter to my Lord of Ormond that rather then He will faile of making a Peace or a Cessation with the Rebells He would have him engage himselfe to joyne with the Rebells against the Scots and the Lord Jnchequin which is the maine visible Protestant Forces that are in Ireland all this is enjoyned to be kept secret from all but two or three of the chiefest Rebells in Ireland whom you heard named in the Letters You may farther observe that a Peace was Treated of with the Rebells about the same time that the King did Treat with the Parliament here concerning Ireland and the King wished a quick dispatch of the Peace there least if He should make a Peace here first He could not shew such Favour to the Irish as He intended They are the words of His Letter You may see by all the Letters to my Lord of Ormond that the King did little stick at any thing to grant to the Rebells for a Peace with them but how little He granted to the Parliament of England at the last Treaty I hope all the World will soon know Animadversions Here are two principall things offered by way of proofe out of the Kings owne Papers concerning the Transaction of Affaires in Ireland to convince the King of Falshood and breach of Faith in two former Professions The first is where he promiseth my Lord of Ormond that He will suspend Poynings Law which they say crosses and contradicts his Solemne Protestation of maintaining the Lawes against what opposition soever though with the hazard of his being And the second is that he proposeth unto him The taking away of all Penall Lawes made against Recusants in Ireland which they say is poynt-blanke against his owne Declaration which he Printed when he had a resolution to goe over into Ireland wherein he does assure all his Subjects That He will never Consent upon what pretence soever to a Toleration of the Popish Profession there or the Abolition of the Lawes now in force against Popish Recusants in that Kingdome And truly the maine Engine of their detraction and Calumny moves upon these two Hinges These two particular Impeachments help and further all the rest to the Reputation of Crimes as one or two good peices of Wine they say will put off a whole range in the Merchants Sellar at the same rate and value with themselves Concerning the suspension of Poynings Law

it Not much unlike the simple fellow spoken of in Lucian who gave Lucian three hundred pence for one of Epictetus his Candles endes which was not worth three halfe pence because he had a conceit that he could not chuse but prove an excellent Philosopher if he studied never so little by Epictetus's Candle And of as great Consequence that is just of none at all is that which followes where the King sayes He will not forget at this Treaty to put a short period to this perpetuall Parliament And I shall only say this to it He that is offended with the King for desiring to put an end to this present Parliament that another of better temper and affection may be Summoned let him groan unpittyed under the pressures and miseries which from this present Parliament he suffers and ever will so long as this present Parliament endures Mr Lisle The last thing that I shall observe to you for you will have the rest observed to you by a better hand is concerning the King's disavowing this Parliament to be the Parliament of England We cannot have greater assurance of any thing from the King then of this present Parliament There is no Law stronger that gives a property to the Subject then the Law is to continue this present Parliament This is so well knowne to the World that Kingdomes and States abroad acknowledge it and now for the King to disavow it after it is confirmed and continued by Act of Parliament after the King hath so lately acknowledg'd it now so suddainly to disavow it How can we be more confident of any assurance or Act from His Majesty There be many things more observable in these Letters but I shall leave them to those worthy Gentlemen that come after me Animadversions It was a common practice of the Popes Emissaries in the begining of the Reformation when any considering or discerning man began to speake ought against the grosle Corruptions Imposthumes in that See which were then as visible as that pretended Head it selfe that bred them To brand him for deserting the Church of Rome in some point of Doctrine and Beliefe that so they might expose him to the greater ignominie and danger who good man only distasted the Court of Rome in some poynt of Discipline and Manners And by this cunning artifice they maintained the See of Rome in the height of all her villanies and impieties no man for a long time daring to oppose them In like manner deale the Rebells with the King The King distasts a factious and seditious Party grown too potent in the Parliament a Party which have frighted most of the honest Members that are present and forced away more of them that are absent and therefore are no more a Parliament indeed then a nut is a nut where the maggot hath eate out the Meate and this distasting of this turbulent Faction in this Parliament is branded by Mr Lisle for a disavowing of this Parliament to be a Parliament on purpose to draw the greater odium upon the King who I think is as rare in this unhappinesse as in many of his Vertues that he is not only the first King but the first Man that ever yet wentabout to perswade the People and to let them see they were not well govern'd and could not be believed The King disavowes not this Parliament nor any one Act that ever He yet past this Parliament no not so much as that Act which continues this Parliament although perchance he may think that Act as lyable to a Repeale as any other and so for diverse causes may repeale it Nay in endeavouring and resolving to Repeale it he does acknowledge it an Act. And whereas Mr Lisle thinkes he hath struck this scandalous aspersion home into their Memories with this hammer of his Eloquence that There is no Law stronger that gives any Property to the Subject then the Law is to continue this present Parliament I shall only interpose and lay this soft Reply between to dead the noyse and fury of the Blow and that is this That if the Law to continue this present Parliament were no stronger then any Law which I know in the Kingdome which gives any Property to the Subject is The King need not take such care to put a period to it For as they have done it would soon cease and vanish of it selfe and come to nothing The summe totall indeed of all that Mr Lisle hath said And therefore as Demosthenes used to say of Phocyon when ever he saw him rising up to speak 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Demosth Behold here rises the Hatchet of all my words and so would goe no farther So does Mr Lisle at the sight of Mr Tate who is now rising and if the Citizens heads should prove so hard all over that neither Hammer nor Hatchet should doe any good upon them it were very strange but commonly where there are two men that have Malice enough which is the Father of a Scandall there will be twenty that will afford Credulity enough which is the Mother And no doubt but so it hapned here Mr Tate his Speech The Letters are so full that I shall rather be your remembrancer of what you have heard in them then give you any observations upon them Animadversions Then does this Speech come after those Letters like an Eve after an Holy-day which should have come before it For sure I am those Letters are not so Full but this speech is as Empty I begin to have a conceit that these three honest men had a dangerous plot in their heads and that was to make one good Orator between them For Mr Tate seems to be disposed of in the Middle Region where Rhetorick is coldest and where the Lawes of Oratory doe indulge most remisnesse and relaxation for this very purpose that according to their ordinary distribution of Preaching-houres the Major and his Brethren may be silent at the beginning till they have used themselves a little to heare sence may Censure the latter end as being the only part of the speech which they remember and may sleep about the middle while Mr Tate the City-Remembrancer may proceed in his new office without more Interruption Mr Tate I shall present before you a very sad spectacle The whole Kingdome of Ireland bleeding a Kingdome all in Peace without any thoughts of Warre without any thoughts of Armes and of a suddaine a Popish Partyrising up laying hold upon all the Forts seizing all the Lands and all the Goods of the Protestants in Ireland and not content with that when they had done killing one hundred thousand of them Man Woman and Childe These Rebels of Ireland that had thus inhumanely murthered so many Protestants here is the sadnesse Now the Favourites of the King and those Subjects that the King did professe to maintaine in maintaining Armes against those Rebels We that by Acts of Parliament of the Kings owne Grant had the Irish Rebels Lands

and Territories granted to us to maintaine a Warre against them now because we maintaine that Warre we are Rebels and Traitors and the Irish Rebels because that they stand against you They shall be freed from all Penall Lawes They shall have any thing that They desire nothing is too deare for them any Lawes may be altered for their sakes But when the Protestants come to desire an Alteration of Law for the advancement of the Protestant Religion and for the settlement of the Protestants nothing can be granted to them by a Protestant King but every thing to the Irish I shall say but a word more and pray consider of it The Condition why all this is granted to the Irish and denied to you it is onely this That the Irish may come over into England to cut your Throats as they cut the throats of all the Irish Protestants in Ireland This is the cause for which they are encouraged to come hither If there be such a reward for Treachery if there be such a fruit of the Protestations of the King what can we expect Animadversions Truly the Kingdome of Ireland bleeding were a very sad spectacle did not the Kingdome of England bleeding call for both our Eyes A Kingdome before this Parliament began so growne aged in continuall Happinesse that as they use to say of the spiced and persum'd Ayre in which the Sabeans Agatharo live Summus quidem odor sed volupt as minor The very Excesse seem'd to abate the pleasure and the Repetition of nothing but the same Blessings which were still as constant as their Dayes did not so much affect the Sence of the Nation as dull it When on the suddaine an Anabaptisticall Party rising up layes hold upon all the Kings Forts and Ships seizes all His Lands rifles all the Goods of most of the Protestants in England and not content with that hath opened more then one hundred Thousand Veynes of as good Protestant bloud and made of as good milke as ever the Church of England gave since She lay in of her first Reformation Now these Rebels of England that have dispoyled their owne lawfull Soveraigne of all his Royall Interests and just Rights and that have thus inhumanely murthered so many thousands of their owne Protestant Brethren here is the sadnesse avow themselves the loyall and most obedient Subjects of the King and those Subjects who venture their Lives and Fortunes in the Cause of God and of the King Those they traduce for Malignants Traytors and Rebels God forbid that the King or any good Protestant should justifie that Rebellion in Ireland halfe so much as these English Rebels themselves doe that exclaime most against it For assuredly no man justifies a sinne more then he that does commit it When the Rebellion brake out first in Ireland all the world knowes there was no man in England more forward in expressing the sense of his Indignation against it then the King Both Houses of Parliament could not suggest any probable Expedient for the quenching of that Flame but the King straight way ratified and approved it Nay His Industry was so like His Interest farre transcending theirs that whilest they were only hovering about Advice He was upon the wings of Action and would have interposed his own Sacred Person in the Quarrell if they would have allowed it and thought it fit But now that a greater Flame is kindled in the Bowells of this Kingdome and that those very Buckets which there should have cast on water to have quenched it are here cast on themselves to augment and raise the fire he that will blame the Kings affections for being corrupted because they are a little coold He that will accuse Him for being false to the Principles of Law which bindes Him to defend His Subjects against the Rebells in Ireland because He is true to the Principles of Nature which binds him to defend himselfe against the Rebells here in England Certainly that man will approve his Humor for Discretion who when the fatall Axe hung over him took greater care for his Haire then for his Head And therefore M. Tate addes little to the credit of his Cause when he heapes up these exaggerations upon the King That the Irish Rebells can be freed from all the penall Lawes that they may have any thing which they desire and that Nothing is to deare for them c. for the more dishonourable and deare the conditions are on which the King purchases the settlement of Irelands Peace The more infamous and odious is this Treason and Rebellion here in England which alone hath rais'd the Market For if England would not Pipe so as it does Ireland would have but little mind to Dance And whereas Mr Tate is of opinion that all this is granted to the Irish that they may come over into England and cut Throats Truly I am of opinion that if they doe not make more hast then I can yet perceive they doe they will loose their Labour for the Scots will have done their Worke before they come Whose encouragements no doubt are the better of the twaine For what they loose in gay promises they find in good Pay What they have not in Repealing of Lawes they have in Reaping the profit of good Lands What they want in three or foure Complements They have in five Counties And a Scott that will not cut Throates upon these Tearmes let him live by cutting of Purses or which is more Merchant-like by selling of Pinnes Mr Tate All I have to say is you see you must stand to your Armes and defend your selves For there is no hopes for you unlesse you can submitt your necks to the Queene and be transformed into Irish Rebels and Papists I know not how you can obtaine any favour at Court especially having such a Mediator as you have a Parliament that is so hated by the King As long as that mediates for you you shall have nothing but if you can have a Popish Catholique Queene to sollicite in your behalfe you shall have any thing I know you are too much Englishmen and Protestants to submit to such base conditions Therefore lay aside all division and unite your selves in this Cause that you may be Masters of the Popish Party that otherwise will kill you all Animadversions Are you come to say all that you have to say already I protest a very moderate Gentleman and one that is not like to be a Lecturer long for though he knows not what to speak yet he knowes when to hold his Tongue I will undertake after this rate he might have talkt till mid-night But sir doe you thinke your Aldermen are awake or rather doe not you think that you have talkt all this while in your sleep For my part I confesse I am so farre a Citizen of the Common Hall that I doe not understand you and I take it for a great blessing upon mine Innocence that I doe not reach your meaning The truth

is I doe a little suspect that if the matter were well examined you that passe for one of the Speakers here would prove rather one of the Sybills who they say neuer understood their owne Prophecies Quintilian observes that there are some streynes in Oratory quae fortia sunt dum laedunt stulta verò cum laeserint which are strong and able to doe mischeife in the minds of men and then are as weake and simple when they have done it as if some kind of Rhetorique had that operation on the mind which some Physick hath upon the body That opens and loosens it when you take it and then tyes and binds it up as fast when it is taken And Mr Tate is excellent at these straines I warrant you when Mr Tate did but cry stand to your Armes Gentlemen and defend your selves the Citizens could imagine nothing lesse then that Sir Colebrand would forsake his Overseers place about the Clock-house and come amongst them presently like a Clubb man No question but when he tells them of submitting their Necks to a Popish Catholique Queene you may see his words cost him nothing he is so liberall to give us two for one the Citizens could not take the Queene for lesse then a She-Tamberlaine and began to think that if she would needs tread upon their necks she might chance hurt her feet I dare say when Mr Tate told them they must be Transformed into Irish Rebels and Papists the Londoners began to consider whether it was not against their Charter and Liberties that any body should transforme them besides their owne Wives So are simple men affected and wrought upon they know not with what more then with what they know as woemen and Children are more affrighted with a naked Ghost then with an Armed man And such another Raw head and bloody bones is that Popish Party which if they be not masters of betimes will kill them all in Mr Tates opinion though truely how they should be masters of them I doe not well see for this Popish Party consisting of Horse Foot and some Dragoones The Horse flye in the ayre and have lately taken a great Castle there The Foot march under ground and have made wooden Ordinances of most of Middletons Pipes and the Dragoones swim with their matches in their mouthes and have nothing but their very bare heads above the water Why but harke you my masters will this cruell Popish Party have no more pitty then to kill them all what fee fa fum man woman child and all what not leave so much as one Alderman and his wife for the City Government to Breed on what not let one Lecturer run up to seed against another yeares Rebellion No not spare a man you shall be killed All and Mr Tate to my thinking hath ended his Speech as the Country Fellowes did their Play who killed one another so fast till they left never a man living to conclude it So that I know nothing else is to be said but Sound Drums and Trumpets and exit Mr Tate carrying off the dead Mr Browne his Speech My Lord Major and you worthy Citizens of the City of London I shall not trouble you to repeat any of the Letters that you have heard read I doubt not but you that heard them doe remember most of them only this I will say to you That for my part I know not whether we have more cause of Joy or Sorrow for this which this day you have heard Cause I know we have to be sorrowfull that things are so ill with us as they are And I am sure we have Cause to rejoyce that things are now discovered and brought to light that have been so long hid in darkenesse This is a day of discovery Heretofore those that spake those things that you have heard this day manifested vnto you were accounted the Malignant Party They were tearmed Rebels they were suspitious jealous People without Cause The Lords and Commons in Parliament they have heretofore declared their feares of the things that you now see proved Answers have been given to those Feares with slights and scornes Things are this day discovered to you that were enjoyned to be kept secret by the strongest engagements The goodnesse of God giving successe to our Army hath brought these things to light Animadversions The Rebels at Westminster in opening these pretended mysteries of darknesse to the Citizens of London to my thinking have proceeded in that manner by the way of method which Nazianzen in opening a darke place of Scripture to St Jerome is related to have proceeded in only by the way of mirth For being importun'd by him to know the meaning of those words in the 6th of Luke Now upon the second Sabbath after the first of which words even Nazianzen himselfe knew not the proper meaning He bid him come to Church next Sunday when he Preacht and then he would tell him because he knew that although he himselfe should not be able to give Jerome any satisfaction yet then and there he knew well enough too that Jerome would not be very willing to give him any Reply They are now growne so cunning at the City-Cheat that they will never shew any Stuffes willingly but by their owne Lights And their Two great Lights are Sermons and Speeches like the Sun to rule the Day and Bells and Bonefires like the Moone to governe the Night and by these Lights are the Masques of most of their Thankesgivings ever acted What a preparation is here made to some great Solemnity what Occasions and Causes of Joy presented for some wonderfull Discovery If the Title Page had not told us that this Speech was spoken the third of July who would not have thought it had been made for the fifth of November when in very deed the fowlenesse of the matter here discovered does no more expiate that fowler unworthinesse of the meanes used in the discovery then that famous Italian Painter could answer his killing of a man by making a good Picture of a man newly killed But Mr Browne knowes he is as Nazianzen was in his Pulpit where he may say any thing and not be contradicted and as the Fellow in Plutarch who had wrastled with one that had a good Tounge and given him a sound Fall when he was ask't who had the better on 't answered it was very uncertaine because saies he although I am sure that I had the better in throwing him yet he hath the better of me in denying it and perswading of the Spectators there was no such matter So the Citizens of London although by the light of their owne understanding they see well enough that there is nothing of moment in these private Letters but what the King may openly justifie to God and to the World Yet when Mr Browne observes such horrible Discoveries unto them when he tells them of such Secrets brought to light as were to be concealed by the strongest engagements of Faith and